Margaret Thatcher by Claire Berlinski

In this video interview with the Hoover Institute, Claire Berlinski, author of There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters, talks about Thatcher's leadership qualities and how she brought England back from the abyss when she came to power and remained so for 11 years from 1979 until 1990.  Since she also lives in Istanbul, and has for 5 years, she also talks about what is going on in Turkey today from an obviously informed point of view.  Although the two topics discussed here are not necessarily connected the interview is interesting because she brings expertise to both subjects.  Based on Berlinski's observations Turkey is at a crossroad in terms of its development as a democracy, and could go either way.  She didn't discuss Erdogan, the current Prime Minister, directly, however he is a fundamentalist who appears to want to take Turkey more in the direction of Iran than the West.